Thread by @jenniferzeng97

1. A long, but still incomplete list of celebrities in the Chinese arts and culture circle who died recently. Celebrities' deaths are more difficult to hide, as their workplaces or families usually publish the news to show respect.
This may give us a rough idea of

2. the high death toll in #China now:
Zhang Mu 张目, head of the opera troupe of the China Opera and Dance Theater, who once played #MaoZedong;
Zhao Qing 赵青, famous dance
Yang Da 杨达, Cantonese comic master & CCP member
Lu Xiaoguang, 陆晓光 TV drama director, CCP member

3. Zheng Rong 郑榕, performing artist, CCP member
Sun Guisheng 孙贵生, famous musician (he played guqin, flute and xiao) , honorary director of the Guqin Professional Committee of the Chinese National Orchestral Society
Li Changle 李长乐, actress

4. Tang Xiaoming, 汤小铭 Winner of the third Guangdong Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature and Arts
Feng Shiming 冯石明, composer of Xi Opera of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group

5. Xiong Yingzheng 熊应政,famous clown actor in Sichuan opera and a performing artist of the Chengdu Academy of Sichuan Opera
Beijing opera actor Hou Menglan 侯梦兰, Zhao Zhiyuan 赵致远 and Chu Lanlan 儲蘭蘭
Shang Yansheng 尚言， well-known director

6. Ni Zhen 倪震， well-known Chinese screenwriter and professor at the Beijing Film Academy
Yu Yuheng 于玉蘅， Peking Opera performer
Ma Shengcai 马生采，retired cadre of Shaanxi Opera Academy，CCP member
Wang Jingguang 王景光, director

7. Li Yanzhen 李艳珍 famous performer of Liuzi Opera, CCP member
Yang Lin, 杨林, famous playwright in Henan Province
Cheng Jinghua 程静华, famous Peking Opera actress
Fu Zucheng 傅祖成, actor
Film and television make-up master, CCP member Wang Xizhong 王希钟

8. Li Yanzhen 李艳珍 famous performer of Liuzi Opera, CCP member
Yang Lin, 杨林, famous playwright in Henan Province
Cheng Jinghua 程静华, famous Peking Opera actress
Fu Zucheng 傅祖成, actor
Film and television make-up master, CCP member Wang Xizhong 王希钟

9. Luo De'an (formerly known as Luo Dan) 罗德安（原名罗丹), film artist & photographer
Chen Jingliang 陈景亮, former director of the China Film Archive and former director and party secretary of the China Film Art Research Center
Xia Yang 夏阳, Sichuan Opera master, CCP member

10. Li Mingsheng 李鸣生, member of the Chinese Writers' Association, CCP member
Ren Jun 任均, retired cadre of the Beijing Academy of Professional Arts in Opera, CCP member
Song Changrong, 宋长荣, Peking Opera performer, CCP member

11. Xin Qiuhua 辛秋花, member of the Chinese Dramatists' Association
Sun Wenwen, 孙文学, famous performer of song-and-dance duet popular in the Northeast (二人转)
An Zhishun 安志顺 composer and national-level performer, CCP member

Source: epochtimes.com/gb/22/12/26/n1…

I put the names in a picture for easy reading:

https://twitter.com/jenniferzeng97/status/1607406708284063744?s=20&t=bPk_zJgh8rJtK64qwN_wyA

One more: Yan Dingxian 严定宪, first-class director, and the chief animation designer of the famous animated feature film "Uproar in the Heaven (大闹天宫)", died on Dec 26.